My Way News - Mubarak to Israel: Progress before recognition
AP reports: "Progress in peace negotiations must come before Arab recognition of Israel, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview with Israel TV broadcast late Tuesday."

Comment: I think this means that they will make no concessions until Israel makes more concessions. I wonder what happened to the idea of reciprocity in negotiations? When will the Palestinians be asked to make concessions? The report also says that the president of Egypt has ruled out amending a proposed agreement to get rid of the so-called "right of return," the demand of Palestinians to settle in Israel. This seems rather absurd to me. Why should Palestinians want to live in Israel if they are going to get their own state? In the crazy world of Mideast politics the Palestinians are insisting on getting their own state as well as the right of their people to live inside Israel. Yes, their official negotiating line is "we want our own land (give us your land to make it ours), and we want to live on some of your land as well," and this position is dangerously close to being accepted.